Coromandel Life Spring/Holiday 2014

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1768 State Highway 25 • Coromandel Town • 07 8667245
Open 7 days 9:30am – 4:30pm
Open for dinner during January & February
Try our very own craft beer brewed on site!
Live Music Every Saturday
January & February in our garden bar
For current menu & information
Visit Gold Stamper Battery and the
Driving Creek Railway and Potteries
For an experiential mining adventure, visit the Coromandel Goldfield
Centre and Stamper Battery, just off Rings Road on Buffalo Road. Pan
for gold at this one hundred year old and fully operational water powered
plant for processing gold from rock. Also a museum, this is one of three
stamper batteries still working in NZ, complete with the biggest working
water wheel. (See page 13 for story about the area’s gold mining days.)
A bit further is the famous Driving Creek Railway and Potteries on
Driving Creek Road. This train is not a circular kiddie ride, but a narrow
gauge mountain railway climbing over hilly terrain, through tunnels, and
across bridges, all bedecked with artistic pottery and tiles. You’ll get a full
60 minutes of track time (not to mention photo opportunities) on these
uniquely designed trains. Potter Barry Brickell began laying the track (and
installing art works) in 1975.
The train ride includes a stop at the Eyefull Tower for spectacular views
out over the island-studded Hauraki Gulf. This is one of the most popular
attractions in NZ, so avoid disappointment – book in advance.
And there is more! Visit the pottery shop, bookshop and Art Gallery.
Barry is actively replanting a kauri forest and there is also a fenced
wildlife sanctuary on the property.
Two attractions await just a few km north of Coromandel town. Above,
pan for gold at the fully functional Coromandel Goldfield Centre Battery
Stamper. Nearby is the famous Driving Creek Railway & Potteries. Train
ride includes a stop at the ‘Eyefull’ Tower lookout (below).
History awaits just north
of Coromandel Town
Continue from town on Kapanga
Road, which becomes Rings
Road, where you can visit
the historic School of Mines,
now a museum. The buildings
in the countryside now show
stately restored homes, sporting
ornate wooden trim and inviting
verandas.
coromandel TOWN “must sees”
EST 1992
See all the highlights in one hour
on this Kiwi favourite Cathedral Cove boat tour.
Departs Hahei Beach, 10 minutes from Hot Water Beach.
Phone 07 866 3910 •
EST 1992
CATHEDRAL COVE TOUR
Hahei, Coromandel Peninsula
THE ORIGINAL
HAHEI EXPLORER
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MUSSELS
Scallops & Flounder
when in season
DINE IN OR TAKEAWAY
We courier anywhere in NZ
1611 SH25 • COROMANDEL
Just South of the 309 Road
OPEN DAILY 8:30am-6:30pm
07-866 8028
DINE
over the
OYSTERBEDS
also
OYSTERS Freshly harvested
from our farms
COROMANDEL OYSTER COMPANY